Cyberthreats

“An attack on Silicon Valley telephone lines and an electric grid that took out transformers and fiber-optic cables remains unsolved a year after the nighttime raid that a federal official has decried as an act of terrorism. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday it was still probin...

EMP delivery vehicle? “As the possibility–however remote–grows that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 may have been hijacked and taken to a hidden location, Israeli authorities are preparing for the possibility that the hijackers might attempt to use the Boeing 777 to mount an attack. ...

“According to people familiar with the report, the Wall St. Journal reported that just nine substations could take down the transmission grid for the entire country. Currently there are no regulations that require protection for key substations, but that could change.” Source:Attack on N...

“Cyber security is emerging as one of the biggest threats for exchange operators as hackers become more sophisticated in their efforts to disrupt the global financial system, a group of exchange leaders told an industry conference. More than half of the world’s exchanges were hit by cybe...

“The Syrian Electronic Army threatens to target the US government, and not with the types of attacks they’re usually launching. ‘SEA advises the terrorist Obama to think very hard before attempting ‘cyberattacks’ on Syria,’ the hackers wrote on Twitter. ‘We know what Obama is plann...

“Brazilian hackers are threatening to disrupt the World Cup with attacks ranging from jamming websites to data theft, adding cyber warfare to the list of challenges for a competition already marred by protests, delays and overspending.” Source:CORRECTED-Hackers target Brazil’s Worl...

“Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it’ll immediately be hacked the moment you turn it on. The story was fabricated. The technical details relate to going to the Olympics in cyberspace (visiting websit...

” ‘As tourists and families of athletes arrive in Sochi, if they haven’t been warned, and if they fire up their phones at baggage claim, it’s probably too late to save the integrity of their electronics and everything inside them. Visitors to Russia can expect to be hacked. A...

“The number of Air Force nuclear weapons officers implicated in a cheating scandal has nearly tripled from the original figure, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Thursday. When the scandal was first disclosed two weeks ago, officials alleged 34 officers were involved – either by...

“When American and British spies were infiltrating virtual-world games like Second Life and World of Warcraft in a bid to detect real-world terrorists, U.S. intelligence warned that jihadists might create an Osama bin Laden avatar that could ‘preach and issue new fatwas for hundreds of years...